What is your calling

What is a model human being?

Can anyone follow all of these steps and guides in a life unpredictable? Yes there are privileged individuals out there who take a very structured path to success but for 90% of people in the world this is not reality, and mor

Life has a funny way of taking us down different and unexpected pathways and situations which require breaking sometimes even our most heavily sacred boundaries for the sake of survival and progress. I would personally like to believe I am ethically conscious and altruistic in my approach to life, but i’ve admittedly had to play the bad guy more than once for my own self preservation.

The older you get, the wiser you are to the truth of the disappointment of how being the good guy and playing fair doesn’t always equate to having a nice happy life, slowly having to reconcile with the fact that the world you know and the people you meet or not as clean, professional and honest as the outward social image would suggest.

I have encountered people who have studied all their adult lives and are still not any closer to where they want to be within their professional careers. Whereas I’ve met others who have been in the right place and the right time or with the right idea who have skipped the entire societal structured route and done very well for themselves.

I have also met people in the corporate world but what i’ve found is that many seek happiness within their own personal interests and in fact either hit a middle life crisis or undergo a full transition later down the line to focus on their happiness goals rather than financial, however they spend years of their lives trying to live up to societal and reputation expectations and then end up deeply locked into responsibilities before they even truly know what makes them happy. The problem is people leave it too late and more often regret not doing things earlier, realising the importance of time on earth rather than material success.

Younger people follow social systems which encourage you to find a purpose quickly and lock into this social pattern, but most young people have not developed the critical thinking skills and life experience to break away from the trodden path, thus repeating the cycle.

I watched back a documentary recently about Christoper McCandless which was adapted into the story best known as “Into the Wild” and what was highlighted was the fact that Chris even from young was clearly different from the rest, his desire to find solitude and peace within the outdoors ultimately guided him to his final big adventure in life. Chris sadly passed away, but he had found his calling to the wilds, seemingly coming to terms with his fate and his choices during his memoirs.

I believe most conscious thinkers seek this desire to find questions of who we really are and what life ultimately means to us, the thought of being trapped into a repetitive cycle eventually hits us, it is like a wake up call which shakes people out of a trance and into action, just like Chris, we all need our into the wild moment to remind us what the point of it all is.

Nothing in life is 100% guaranteed, you can have a top job, the best education, follow the straight path, and life can change in an instant and you can lose it all. Normally, inevitable life events inadvertently change your whole outlook on life.

If you find a new interest, hobby or career calling there is no time like the present to start your new journey into what makes you fulfilled and happy, the path itself may not finish at your ultimate goals but at least you can be happy in finding who you are in the most pure form possible without social construct and influence dictating who you should be at any given time of your life.